What Happens When Literary Events Move Online? A Look at the Book World’s New Digital Reality

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10-15-2020

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"We remain curious about how we—event organizers, publishers, writers, readers—will all adapt over the longer term. The online environment has some of us clinging to assumptions that intimacy means in-person, shoulder to shoulder with other readers, the author’s voice carried on the air around us. Others are considering whether a different kind of intimacy exists online."

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This article was originally published in Literary Hub on October 15, 2020.

This scholarship is part of the Chapman University COVID-19 Archives.

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